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There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates. (Quote by - Dante)

Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Extreme busyness, whether at school, or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)

My appetite comes to me while eating. (Quote by - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne)

The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others. (Quote by - Emile M. Cioran)

Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little ... oh, I admit only a very little ... of what life is about. (Quote by - Francoise Sagan)

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety; other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one. (Quote by - William Penn)

Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs with drinking. (Quote by - Francois Rabelais)

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Riches enlarge, rather than satisfy appetites. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)

Every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite. (Quote by - Aristotle)

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